The Federal Communications Commission is looking to streamline the process inventors go through when testing their products on the airwaves. (Politico)

The Office of Management and Budget is proposing consolidating federal guidance on grants and financial assistance payments. The move is aimed at reducing paperwork and fraud. (GovExec)

President Obama is not the first person in his line of work to create a lobbying group that seeks to influence national policy. Former Presidents Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton have gone down – or at least tried to travel – similar paths. (Politico)

2014 is on the minds of some of the biggest Republican Party donors, who are funding a group to protect incumbents and find new candidates for the upcoming U.S. Senate races. (New York Times)

Changes to the U.S. Senate lobbying database over the weekend appear to have broken outside links to the documents, impacting watchdog groups like OpenSecrets.org. A staffer said the changes were made so documents would be available in HTML instead of PDF. (Public Integrity)

Legislators in Missouri are looking to pass a bill that would require more advance notice of public meetings and increase the likelihood of facing penalties for violating the state’s open meetings and records law. (News Tribune)

Legislative aides in Virginia will receive the same privacy protections under the state’s Freedom of Information Act as legislators under a new bill. (Watchdog.org)

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